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Rahul Kumar Barnwal @rahulgithub-web

Minimum Window Substring Problem

Minimum Window Substring: Find smallest substring of s containing all chars from t. Use sliding window & hash maps for efficient solution.

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The Minimum Window Substring problem requires finding the smallest substring of s that contains all characters from t. Let’s solve it step by step using an efficient sliding window approach.


  
  
  🚀 Problem Description

Given strings s and t, return the smallest substring of s such that all characters in t (including duplicates) are included in the substring. If no such substring exists, return an empty string "".


  
  
  💡 Examples

Example 1

Input: s = "ADOBECODEBANC", t = "ABC"  
Output: "BANC"  
Explanation: The substring "BANC" contains all characters 'A', 'B',...